Kenneth Baker

Britain's Court of Appeal on Friday found Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Kenneth Baker guilty of contempt of court for failing to prevent the deportation of a Zairean teacher. Three judges ruled 2 to 1 that Baker was in contempt "by reason of his personal decision" to order the Zairean, who was seeking asylum, to be deported May 2 though a judge had ordered his deportation delayed pending a court challenge. A review of his case had been scheduled on the same day he was deported to Kinshasa.

Britain's Court of Appeal on Friday found Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Kenneth Baker guilty of contempt of court for failing to prevent the deportation of a Zairean teacher. Three judges ruled 2 to 1 that Baker was in contempt "by reason of his personal decision" to order the Zairean, who was seeking asylum, to be deported May 2 though a judge had ordered his deportation delayed pending a court challenge. A review of his case had been scheduled on the same day he was deported to Kinshasa.

D. Kenneth Baker, president of Harvey Mudd College since 1976, has announced that he will retire at the end of the academic year in 1988, when he reaches age 65. A spokesman for the college said Baker announced his retirement more than a year in advance to give the board of trustees adequate time to find a replacement. He is the second president of the college, which was founded in 1955 and emphasizes engineering and science.

The Conservative Party of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose ratings have plummeted in opinion polls, opened its annual conference in the northern English resort of Blackpool. With Britain's grim economic situation dominating the meeting, party officials defended their beleaguered finance minister, Nigel Lawson. Party Chairman Kenneth Baker opened the session by supporting Lawson and sought to boost morale with a fierce attack on the opposition Labor Party.

CBS executive Laurence A. Tisch and publishing mogul Malcolm Forbes are part of a corporate bridge team taking on British parliamentarians as the lords of American finance meet real British nobility. Sir Peter Emery of London and the selector Duke of Atholl will co-captain the British Parliament team in the Feb. 23 match in London, said Kathy Wei of the American Contract Bridge League. Wei, one of the top world bridge players, said Wednesday she will be master of ceremonies for the event. The U.

Henry E. Riggs has been named president of Harvey Mudd College and will start his new job in July, officials announced Tuesday. Riggs, 52, vice president for development at Stanford University, will replace D. Kenneth Baker, who has been president of the Claremont school since 1976 and is retiring.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold a short dress rehearsal today for the Washington summit. Gorbachev will fly into the Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, about 70 miles west of London, in the morning, for what Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov described as both a refueling stop and an opportunity for a fueling of ideas.

Britain today ordered the expulsions of eight members of the Iraqi Embassy staff and the deportation of 67 other Iraqis, citing threats by Iraq to attack Western targets if war breaks out in the Persian Gulf. The eight Iraqi Embassy staff members, seven of whom are diplomats, were given 24 hours to leave the country, and their families must go within a week, the Foreign Office said. "I am very sorry about them.

Britain has deported a Massachusetts man who claims no mass extermination took place in Nazi concentration camps, the Home Office said Sunday. Fred Leuchter Jr. was flown to New York on Saturday evening aboard a British Airways flight, a Home Office official said. He said that Leuchter, 49, was barred from Britain on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the public good.